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...Gallagher’s delegation is expected to meet Lai in addition to Han Kuo-yu, the newly elected legislative Speaker from the opposition Kuomintang, a party Beijing is more comfortable with because it views Taiwan...
...Additional reporting by Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong and Yuan Yang in London...
...Ma Han, 28, said he had relied on friends to find medicine and antigen testing kits after his wife developed a fever on Monday....
...The company’s founder Xie Zhikun died in 2021 and was replaced by his nephew Liu Yang. Zhongzhi said Xie had played a “pivotal role” in decision making....
...Yang Kai, a friend of Gao’s, is from Maotai township, the town where China’s famous liquor is made. His family are also distillers, but Yang said he does not want to start his own distillery....
...“His efforts to co-operate with the KMT turned me off, so now I’ll still vote for the DPP,” Yang said. The KMT’s warnings that a DPP victory could provoke war do not seem credible to Yang....
...Li urged the officials in attendance, including vice-premiers Liu He and Han Zheng and central bank governor Yi Gang, to help companies resume production....
...“Banditry was endemic,” she wrote, describing how she and her collaborator Yu Xiji would set off for house visits armed with sticks to beat off guard-dogs....
...The panel, moderated by Yuan Yang, the FT’s Europe-China correspondent, was going to feature: Sun Yu, FT China economics reporter Eleanor Olcott, China technology reporter James Kynge, global China editor...
...Her gallery brings a mixed booth of its artists to the fair, including work by Chou Yu-Cheng and Liu Yin....
...He told the FT his message to his hosts, China’s vice-president Han Zheng and foreign minister Wang Yi, was that “the UK is open for business” from Beijing, provided it does not create national security...
...Yang, an accounting graduate from a private second-tier university, has secured a job that pays just Rmb3,000 a month, about a third of what her father earns as a construction worker....
...“If China cannot improve its relationship with the US-led west, then it doubles down its efforts in the ‘Global South’, of which the Middle East is a vital piece,” said Yu Jie, research fellow at Chatham...
...says Yang....
...As the concept of de-risking still leaves room for interpretation, the Chinese side is “trying to figure what the gap is between rhetoric and action,” said Yu Jie, senior research fellow at the Chatham House...
...The KMT wants Han Kuo-yu, a populist China-friendly politician who lost the last presidential election to Tsai, to become speaker....
...“Taiwan is getting stronger and stronger in global tech manufacturing and especially in chips,” said Wu Chun-han, a hardware electronics engineer....
Ride-hailing group received multiple requests from regulator before its IPO to remove sensitive locations
...Han singled out real estate and consumer spending as two areas for attention....
...Yuan Yang’s excellent piece “China’s collective memory of Covid must be preserved” (Opinion, January 7) reminds me of the deathbed exhortation made by the Han dynasty imperial court archivist Sima Tan (165BC...
...Yang took her daughter to a private clinic where admitted patients are charged at least Rmb12,000 ($1,720) per day....
...The estimates — including 37mn people, or 2.6 per cent of the population, who were infected on Tuesday alone — were revealed by Sun Yang, a deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
...Register for your free ticket now and send in your questions for James Kynge, Yuan Yang, Eleanor Olcott, Yu Sun, and UBS economist Tao Wang....
...Yu Han, PTL’s chief representative in Europe and project manager for the Sundsvall plant, told the Financial Times the company had chosen Sweden because it “is the only European country to have a firm strategy...
...But the protests in Urumqi were filled with Chinese people from the Han majority who are also suffering from the lockdown....
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